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02769aam a2200433 i 4500 001 A8391BD238A911ED914067003BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220920010102 008 211026t20222022nscb b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1788531906 020 $a 9781788531900 020 $a 1788531892 020 $a 9781788531894 020 $a 1773635212 020 $a 9781773635217 035 $a (OCoLC)1280400614 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d NLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d PAU $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a HD1521 $b .H36 2022 055 0 $a HD1521 $b .H36 2022 082 04 $a 305.5/633 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Handy, Jim, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Tiny engines of abundance : $b a history of peasant productivity and repression / $c Jim Handy. 264 1 $a Black Point, Nova Scotia : $b Fernwood Publishing ; $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 142 pages : $b maps ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Critical development studies series ; $v 7 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-137) and index. 520 $a "This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity and/or the state. For two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been. Handy’s approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty. "-- $c Publisher's webpage. 650 0 $a Peasants $x History. 650 0 $a Sustainable agriculture $x History. 650 7 $a Peasants. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01734394 650 7 $a Sustainable agriculture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01139712 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Handy, Jim, 1952- $t Tiny engines of abundance. $d Winnipeg ; Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, 2022 $z 9781773635439 $z 9781773635439 $w (OCoLC)1282647889 830 0 $a Critical development studies ; $v 7. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015704.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A8391BD238A911ED914067003BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search